Coursera will now offer a degree program in computer science

The online education company Coursera has just released new statistics revealing that courses in data and computer science are the most popular with online learners in the UK. Almost a third of the course enrolments of the half a million registered users in the UK fall under this category. In order to meet the growing demand for coursers in computer science, Coursera has decided to partner with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to offer a professional data science Master’s degree. This degree will give learners interested in computer science a much more affordable and flexible way to study at a fraction of the cost of a traditional on-campus or online master’s degree. Coursera has also reimagined the way graduate-level education works by making it a “stackable” degree. Users will…